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F. W. de Klerk on why apartheid will fail in Israel/Palestine

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Maps of the Black homelands in apartheid South Africa (left) and areas of autonomous Palestinian control in the West Bank under the Oslo Accords (right) (Maps: Philip Munger)
 

Interesting quote over at Jews Sans Frontieres from a recent BBC Radio 4 interview with F. W. de Klerk, the last president of apartheid South Africa:

What I supported as a younger politician was exactly what the whole world now supports for Israel and Palestine, namely separate nation states will be the solution. In our case we failed. There were three main reasons. We failed because the whites wanted too much land for themselves. We failed because the majority of blacks said this is not how we want our political rights. And we failed because we became economically totally integrated. We became an economic omelet and you can never again divide an omelet into the white and the yellow of the egg. And we realized in the early eighties we had landed in a place which has become morally unjustified.

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So, now BOTH sides the of South African apartheid fight are calling a spade a spade in Palestine…..

And with the Israeli court giving the green light to continued Israeli resource extraction from OPT, its hard to argue that the omelet is not taking its form

And in the 60’s and 70’s students on campuses in the US became better informed about this critical issue. “morally unjustifiable” More people are waking up to the I/P situation because of decades of efforts, Mondoweiss etc. Keep pushing. Contact your Reps about the unnecessary sanctions against Iran that most of them voted for

F. W. de Klerk has also said that boycotts of Israel would be ineffective. Desmond Tutu, of course, disagrees.

You miss the most salient thing de Klerk is saying:
“And we failed because we became economically totally integrated. We became an economic omelet and you can never again divide an omelet into the white and the yellow of the egg. ”

This is not the case in Israel/Palestine. The Palestinians need the Israelis economically but the Israelis have zero need of the Palestinians. The whites were 12% of South Africa and needed the blacks as workers in the mines and in industry. The Jews in Israel are 70% and we do not need the Palestinians to support our high tech economy.

As for his other two reasons, they are not applicable either. Israel is no demanding too much land and most Palestinians support a two state solution.

Apartheid will fail and so will a Jewish majority greater Israel. see here [“Israeli jews will lose majority”:- http://www.imemc.org/article/62769 ] International Middle east media centre, 3rd January 2012.